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Hidden away in the remote Sublette Mountain Range is a beautiful reservoir well-known to the locals as a weekend getaway. Dozens of miles of near wilderness surround it, but on a weekend, cars can be found lining the shore. The lake is about a mile long in an 'L' shape. You can find this gem by exiting Interstate 84 at Sublett, and following the road westward.

The Planet Earth Online

We Live on a big, beautiful planet stocked with a great variety of scenery and landscape.
It is a planet made for humans to live on, but most of it is covered by fields and mountains and deserts and oceans. It is a real
planet full of living plants and animals, and a few billion people, each of which are unique and interesting. People have shaped the
world in many ways, building houses and cities and farms. Roads, a man-made feature, criss-cross the whole earth, tying
together its endless variety into one common network.

Since 1999, UntraveledRoad has been capturing the scenery of modern highways, mountain roads, city streets and trails, visiting places
both exotic and familiar to create a photographic virtual world, where you can stop to look at wildflowers, lakes, mountain vistas,
and read historic markers,
all from the comfort of your computer chair. With 396,883 hand-held camera photographs, UntraveledRoad preserves a
repository of beautiful scenery which you can explore at your leisure. If you want to see the beauty of National Parks, the serenity
of an alpine wilderness, the solitude of the desert, or wander randomly along highways, it is waiting for you now at a mouseclick.

These virtual tours consist of stops along roads, streets and trails, where four pictures are taken, one in each direction. Each page shows
an ahead-facing picture along with two side view thumbnails. You can turn in any direction, and proceed to the next stop. Where appropriate, extra
pictures show high-resolution views of scenery, or historic and interpretative markers. Some complicated intersections include pictures
for diagonal directions. To skip uneventful sections of roadway, a jump feature takes you to the next important town or intersection. See
the legend at the bottom of this page for more information.

This page highlights only a few samples of the many explorations you can make on UntraveledRoad.

Between the ridges of the Rocky Mountains on the Idaho-Utah border, lie the turquoise waters of Bear Lake, surrounded by swampy grasslands and sagebrush-covered hills. At 5,923 feet in elevation, it is just a notch lower than the 9,000-foot Bear River Mountains immediately west of it. After boating on the 18-mile long lake, you can picnic in the beautiful canyons, hike in the mountain forests and tour the picturesque ranching towns of the valley.

The Oregon Trail ran through the north end of Bear Lake Valley, and Mormon settlers arrived in the 1860's. Don't miss the beautiful Paris Tabernacle, built in 1889, which seats four times the population of the town. Go spelunking in Minnetonka Cave or Paris Ice Cave.

Along the east shore of the lake, resorts and retirement communities have sprung up, with million-dollar "cabins" overlooking the lake. In the summer, visitors to the lake can exceed the population of the valley by several times.

Canyon de Chelly is an oasis enclosed from the desert by red sandstone cliffs a thousand feet high. Native Americans have lived in Canyon de Chelly for thousands of years and still do today, Canyon de Chelly is actually a labyrinth of canyons which are as much as twenty miles long. Roads access the rims on the north and the south where visitors can overlook the amazing scenery. Numerous cliff dwellings were built anciently under the canyon rims.

Canyon de Chelly is part of the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation, and is administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Located in the vast deserts of northeast Arizona, it is away from the bustle of American life, and a chance to ponder past civilizations and other ways of life.

The Abajo Mountains rise above the diverse terrain of southeastern Utah to a height of 11,360 feet. Alpine forests cover their slopes and numerous mountain roads wander over their many ridges and canyons. From the peak, you can overlook the farmlands of Montezuma Valley to the west, the deserts of Arizona to the south and the chasms of Canyonlands and the Colorado River to the north and west.

Legend

A tree icon indicates high resolution scenic views.
A magnifying glass icon indicates a historic or interpretive marker that can be read.
Side arrows indicate intersecting routes which can be followed.
A flash icon indicates a jump ahead to the next town, intersection or point of interest.